Speaking in vivid detail, Gaspare Valenti offered a crisp inside view of the most notorious mob heist ... crew piled into a black van, Valenti said. They drove to a side gate leading to the ...

Vincent Asaro, left , was arrested Thursday in connection with the 1978 Lufthansa heist at Kennedy Airport ... the Gent” Burke killed off one crew member after another to avoid being ratted ...

The crew — including gangster Tommy “Tommy ... James “Jimmy the Gent” Burke, the mastermind behind the 1978 Lufthansa heist at JFK airport, in handcuffs in in 1979. Burke, a Lucchese ...

Asaro, 80, is charged with racketeering, murder and planning the infamous 1978 heist at Kennedy Airport that netted his mob crew nearly $6 million in cash and jewels stored in a Lufthansa ...

Several years after the spectacular 1978 Lufthansa heist, Bonanno hood Vincent Asaro rounded up his crew to do another job — punish another mobster for shooting a dog. An accused killer who ...

The Lufthansa heist — a pre-dawn raid on a ... by Jimmy "the Gent" Burke's paranoid elimination of most of the heist crew. It was a plot point in GoodFellas. It's got a whole skein of ripping ...

Asaro gave Massino, his boss in a Bonanno crew, an attache case filled with gold and jewelry from the heist as a tribute ... come forward to crack open the Lufthansa time capsule and the feds ...

As ‘The Great American Heist’ explores, Burke later added Angelo Sepe to his mob crew, who had reportedly ... four decades have passed since the Lufthansa Heist gripped the nation, its allure ...

A prosecutor called the $6 million Lufthansa terminal heist in 1978 the "score of scores ... Robert De Niro character in the movie -- while a crew carried it out, and received a $500,000 share.

The Lufthansa heist — a pre-dawn raid on a ... by Jimmy "the Gent" Burke's paranoid elimination of most of the heist crew. It was a plot point in GoodFellas. It's got a whole skein of ripping ...